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Post by LuLu on Jun 9, 2013 23:25:07 GMT -5
Today In History
On June 10, 1963,
President John F. Kennedy signed into law the Equal Pay Act of 1963, aimed at eliminating wage disparities based on gender. The same day, Kennedy delivered a commencement...
In 1692,
the first official execution resulting from the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts took place as Bridget Bishop was hanged.
In 1861,
during the Civil War, Confederate troops routed Union soldiers in the Battle of Big Bethel in Virginia.
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Post by LuLu on Jun 10, 2013 23:13:57 GMT -5
Today In History
1429
Hundred Years' War: The start of the Battle of Jargeau
1770
Capt James Cook discovers Great Barrier Reef
1979
John Wayne [Marion Mitchell Morrison], actor (Green Berets, True Grit), dies at 72
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Post by LuLu on Jun 11, 2013 23:14:12 GMT -5
Today in History
On June 12, 1963,
civil rights leader Medgar Evers, 37, was shot and killed outside his home in Jackson, Miss. (In 1994, Byron De La Beckwith was convicted of murdering Evers and sentenced to...
In 1776,
Virginia's colonial legislature became the first to adopt a Bill of Rights.
In 1898,
Philippine nationalists declared independence from Spain.
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Post by LuLu on Jun 12, 2013 23:40:54 GMT -5
Today In History
On June 13, 1983,
the U.S. space probe Pioneer 10, launched in 1972, became the first spacecraft to leave the solar system as it crossed the orbit of Neptune.
In 1842,
Queen Victoria became the first British monarch to ride on a train, traveling from Slough Railway Station to Paddington in 25 minutes.
In 1886,
King Ludwig II of Bavaria drowned in Lake Starnberg.
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Post by LuLu on Jun 13, 2013 23:57:46 GMT -5
Today in History
On June 14, 1777,
the Continental Congress in Philadelphia adopted the Stars and Stripes as the national flag.
In 1775,
the Continental Army, forerunner of the United States Army, was created.
In 1801,
former American Revolutionary War General and notorious turncoat Benedict Arnold died in London.
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Post by LuLu on Jun 14, 2013 23:27:45 GMT -5
Today in History
On June 15, 1775,
the Second Continental Congress voted unanimously to appoint George Washington head of the Continental Army.
In 1215,
England's King John put his seal to Magna Carta ("the Great Charter") at Runnymede.
In 1219,
forces led by King Valdemar II of Denmark defeated the Estonians in the Battle of Lyndanisse.
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Post by LuLu on Jun 15, 2013 23:21:27 GMT -5
Today in History
On June 16, 1963,
the world's first female space traveler, Valentina Tereshkova (teh-ruhsh-KOH'-vuh), 26, was launched into orbit by the Soviet Union aboard Vostok 6; she spent 71 hours in...
In 1567,
Mary, Queen of Scots, was imprisoned in Lochleven Castle in Scotland. (She escaped almost a year later but ended up imprisoned again.)
In 1858,
accepting the Illinois Republican Party's nomination for the U.S. Senate, Abraham Lincoln said the slavery issue had to be resolved, declaring, "A house divided against itself...
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Post by LuLu on Jun 16, 2013 23:46:24 GMT -5
Today in History
On June 17, 1963,
the U.S. Supreme Court, in Abington (Pa.) School District v. Schempp, struck down, 8-1, rules requiring the recitation of the Lord's Prayer or reading of Biblical verses in...
In 1397,
the Treaty of Kalmar was signed, creating a union between the kingdoms of Sweden, Denmark and Norway.
In 1775,
the Revolutionary War Battle of Bunker Hill resulted in a costly victory for the British, who suffered heavy losses.
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Post by LuLu on Jun 17, 2013 23:29:10 GMT -5
Today In History
On June 18, 1983,
astronaut Sally K. Ride, 32, became America's first woman in space as she and four colleagues (commander Robert L. Crippen, pilot Frederick H. Hauck and Ride's fellow mission specialists John M. Fabian and Norman E. Thagard) blasted off aboard the space shuttle Challenger on a six-day mission.
In 1873,
suffragist Susan B. Anthony was found guilty by a judge in Canandaigua, N.Y., of breaking the law by casting a vote in the 1872 presidential election. (The judge fined Anthony $100, but she never paid the penalty.)
In 1908,
William Howard Taft was nominated for president by the Republican National Convention in Chicago.
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Post by LuLu on Jun 18, 2013 23:32:06 GMT -5
Today In History
In 1865,
Union troops commanded by Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, with news that the Civil War was over, and that all remaining slaves in Texas were free.
In 1910,
the first-ever Father's Day was celebrated in Spokane, Wash. (The idea for the observance is credited to Sonora Louise Smart Dodd.)
In 1999,
Britain's Prince Edward married commoner Sophie Rhys-Jones (rees johnz) in Windsor, England.
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Post by LuLu on Jun 19, 2013 23:29:04 GMT -5
Today in History
On June 20, 1863,
West Virginia became the 35th state.
In 1782,
Congress approved the Great Seal of the United States, featuring the emblem of the bald eagle.
In 1791
King Louis XVI of France and his family attempted to flee the country in the so-called Flight to Varennes but were caught.
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Post by LuLu on Jun 20, 2013 23:41:51 GMT -5
Today In History
On June 21, 1963,
Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini was chosen during a conclave of his fellow cardinals to succeed the late Pope John XXIII; the new pope took the name Paul VI.
In 1788,
the United States Constitution went into effect as New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify it.
In 1834,
Cyrus Hall McCormick received a patent for his reaping machine.
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Post by LuLu on Jun 21, 2013 23:15:58 GMT -5
Today in History
On June 22, 1944,
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, more popularly known as the "GI Bill of Rights."
In 1611,
English explorer Henry Hudson, his son and several other people were set adrift in present-day Hudson Bay by mutineers aboard the Discovery; their fate remains unknown.
In 1870,
the United States Department of Justice was created.
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Post by LuLu on Jun 22, 2013 23:09:19 GMT -5
Today In History
In 1812,
Britain, unaware that America had declared war against it five days earlier, rescinded its policy on neutral shipping, a major issue of contention between the two countries.
In 1860,
a congressional resolution authorized creation of the United States Government Printing Office, which opened the following year.
In 1931,
aviators Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from New York on a round-the-world flight that lasted eight days and 15 hours.
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Post by LuLu on Jun 23, 2013 23:22:37 GMT -5
Today In History
1938
500 ton meteorite lands near Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
1930
Ground is broken for construction of Cleveland Stadium
1861
Tennessee becomes 11th (& last) state to secede from US
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